Part V Industrial action
Requirement of ballot before action by trade union
F1232B Small accidental failures to be disregarded.
(1)
If—
(a)
in relation to a ballot there is a failure (or there are failures) to comply with a provision mentioned in subsection (2) or with more than one of those provisions, and
(b)
the failure is accidental and on a scale which is unlikely to affect the result of the ballot or, as the case may be, the failures are accidental and taken together are on a scale which is unlikely to affect the result of the ballot,
the failure (or failures) shall be disregarded F2for all purposes (including, in particular, those of section 232A(c)).
(2)
The provisions are section 227(1), section 230(2) and section F3230(2B).